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What happened last chapter ;
'Sirius! You really don't see ,do you?!' James shouted.
'NO I don't! Because there is NOTHING to see.'
'How do you know that?!He even has a freaking journal!'
'So what?!'
'And he writes to his mother every day.'Commented Peter.
'Again, so what?! Don't you miss your mother? You know nothing about Remus, so shut the hell up about him before he wakes up!'
"Think you already accomplished that…"
The next morning , Remus didn't really know how to act towards the three friends.
He felt a bit ashamed, that they thought ( " Know" his mind corrected) he was in love with Sirius. That he might even be turned on by Peter. Which was just plain disgusting.
He didn't feel angry, which was really how he should feel, his mother told him later in her letter.
He just felt exposed and rather as if a huge secret had been discovered.
"Well, at least they don't know about the wolf." He tried to cheer himself up.
Not that it worked.
'Good morning, Remus.' James greeted as if he'd not yelled about Remus being gay the other night.
'Err…Good morning, James.' Remus said awkwardly. He shifted in his seat at the table in the Great Hall and poked his scrabbled eggs sadly.
'Did you sleep well?' Asked Lily, sliding in next to him. ' Because you look like hell.' Sirius said in a worried tone from across the table. 'No, I'm completely fine.' He forced down a yawn and took a sip of pumpkin juice. Sirius narrowed his eyes to small slits and seemed to examine him before announcing ' I don't believe you.' Remus just shrugged and said 'Well, I'm going to go to class.' 'Wait a sec!' Sirius and Lily both jumped up and followed him, Sirius grabbing a piece of toast on the way.
'We've got History of Magic first thing, right?' Sirius asked, hanging an arm around Remus shoulders nonchalantly. Remus tensed and stuttered 'Y-yeah.'
Tonight was Full Moon, and he wasn't feeling exactly peachy.
Lily frowned at the sight of the tensed boy and made a mental note sort this out.
'Err, Sirius, you're on the Quidditch team, with that stupid git, right?'
'You mean, James? Yeah. Why?' 'Just…asking.'
'You got a crush on Jamesie?' Sirius asked teasingly. 'No, of course not. If you want to know so badly, I'd like it if you could throw the Quaffle against his head, it might deflate his overlarge ego a bit.'
'I'm Beater. And James is my best mate, sorry Evans, can't help you in that department. I recommend Snape, he'd hex him for you anytime. Think he's a bit a in loooove with you.'
Sirius corrected with a grin. Lily rolled her eyes and batted him playfully on the arm.
'Really now, Snivelly is even more obsessed with you than James is.' He said in a mocking serious tone, before laughing again.
'You're not really convincing if you laugh right after your lie.' Remus said softly, repeating his mothers words.
'It wasn't a lie.' Sirius tried, and failed. 'Yes , it was.' Remus said again in the same soft tone of voice.
Lily frowned again but didn't say anything.
They went to sit in the classroom, Lily in the front, Remus and Sirius in the back.
'Do you not find it easier to take notes when you sit closer to the Professor?' Lily asked confused. Remus always took notes, but also always doing so sitting in the back, with the extremely noisy Marauders next to him. Lily found it rather hard to concentrate around them.
'Oh, no. I can hear what Binns says perfectly fine here.' Remus assured her.
She turned around in her seat and started to take pieces of parchment, some ink and a quill out of her bag.
Lily Evans was determined to find out what it was about Remus that was so off.
He seemed a very normal, yet extremely shy and he always seemed a bit scared of larger crowds. He covered himself, she'd noticed, and was always very careful not to show what he was thinking. "He's probably an excellent liar…"
Remus was a bit nervous to be alone, well with Lily on the other side of the classroom, with Sirius. He didn't have anything special to talk about, besides the books he'd read that Sirius only saw in his nightmares.
'So Rems…What do you say about planning a prank with ol' Sirius here?'
"What's with the nicknames…?" Remus asked himself.
'What kind of a prank?' He asked curiously. '…Any prank! We'll go brainstorming right now!'Sirius said excited. 'I've got to take notes. I don't think I've had this stuff at home…'
Sirius started pouting. 'Awwww, pwease? For wittle Siri?'
As much as he wanted to stop looking , Remus could not pull his gaze away. Sirius looked positively adorable. "Bad thoughts!"
'Maybe later, when I'm done with my homework. You can start though.' He offered.
He wanted to help Sirius , really, but he was also afraid James would hate him , that he would think he'd try to steal his friend away.
Sirius grunted and sank back in his seat. 'Fine.' He sulked.
The rest of their classmates came in and a very boring lesson History of Magic began.
A/N
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